This blogspot includes information on our Bio Huerto (vegetable garden) in Cangallo, as well as the construction of a new Kitchen and Dining Room at our main chapel in Motupe. This construction has been assisted by the Columbans as well as the Holy Faith Sisiters of Ireland who spent many years working in this Parish. This new kitchen will continue to be serviced through the Shared Table project, and will begin to operate early in 2007.

We also include some photos of the kitchen of San Antonio which is run by Senora Marta Vargas. Through some very generous once-off donations we plan to upgrade the facilities at this kitchen which operates out of very basic conditions at present.

We are particularly pleased with how our Bio Huerto is developing - to see a healthy vegetable garden take shape among what was once a garbage dump upon rock and dust is particularly heartening. We also include some photos of a recent workshop held at Cangallo which was aimed at encouraging children and youth to become more conscious of their environment and the problems related to its polution. With the Bio Huerto, we have somewhere to direct their attention, given that the conditions of the local environment are not the most inspiring.

A sincere thank you to all our supporters. I look forward to catching up with many of you personally in the next few months.

Fr. Michael McKinnon
Lima, Peru
23rd September 2006
mickmckinnon@yahoo.com

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